My book-buying "problem"

Must not buy books, must not buy books……. Lashenden Air Warfare Museum, quid each. The top one is signed.

 

A quid doesn't count.

It's only a book if it cost over a fiver--and certainly not if it's light enough to lay on top of other books.

You're not in the wrong here.

Carry on.

 

Finally able to find a copy of this book at a decent price. Lots of interesting photos as well as text.

Other arrivals

 

100 pages. More of a booklet, than a book...

 

Always enjoy watching him in action on AHF. Makes for some interesting threads.

 

Getting a bit predictable with my purchases but finding this latest one an excellent read. The resistance through Cretan eyes.
The Priesthood on the island, who judging by the photos were more than handy, got up to plenty of shenanigans:.

 

That is a nice illustration of the marines on the cover of that book.

Scott

 

I like it, too.

Reminds me of the kind you see on the cover of small print-run wargaming rules I used to buy as a teenager.

Hoping to get some material on 40 Commando and 3 Commando Bde in the late 40s and early 50s.

Someone has recently done an excellent job of updating the dodgy skeleton article that had been sitting on Wikipedia for years: British Forces Overseas Hong Kong - Wikipedia

 

Interesting arrival with some good pictures. Covers Tobruk up until Kiel. Bought it for the accounts on serving on A lighters doing the supply run to Tobruk

 

Yes, Richard Anderson is very good.

 

My latest purchase is Heavy and Continuous Sacrifice edited by Peter Cooke and John Crawford. The blurb describes it thus:

"Every four years the NZ Military History Committee runs a conference and publishes the best papers from it about New Zealand’s varied and fascinating military history. This book brings together the latest thinking on aspects of New Zealand’s Second World War from perspectives as wide as Germany, Canada, Britain and Australia and on subjects covering combat, forces, personalities, attitudes and after-effects. This book includes essays from some of the most renowned New Zealand and international historians, including Jonathan Fennell, Chris Pugsley, Peter Lieb, Robert Engen, Claire Cookson-Hills, and John Crawford."

Photos of the contents page can be found here https://x.com/DCLittlewood/status/1773142282348175739